Brescia, maxi blitz against the "Stidda": 70 arrests and kidnappings for 35 million

2019-09-26T06:05:21.681Z

Seventy arrests and kidnappings for 35 million euros. It is the balance sheet of a maxi anti-mafia operation that has been underway for several hours in various Italian provinces. The prosecutor's office of Brescia, District Anti-Mafia Directorate - in the context of a long and complex investigation called "Leonessa", conducted by the Guardia di Finanza and by the State Police - has ascertained the operation of "a mafia constable of stiddara matrix, with quarters general in Brescia, which has heavily polluted various economic sectors through the marketing of fictitious tax credits for tens of millions of euro ". The Stidda, in its northern version 'in a jacket and tie' - the investigators explain - "while maintaining the 'ancient' mafia modalities in daily action, has proved capable of a true 'evolutionary metamorphosis', replacing traditional crimes new business, using the 'white collar' as the link between the mobsters and the entrepreneurs, "who identified among their customers - scattered mainly between Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, but also in Lazio, Calabria and Sicily - those available to easy savings. The investigation - which saw the support of the Central Operative Service of the State Police and Scico della Guardia di Finanza - also brought to light numerous tax crimes and corruption phenomena.